St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-29
REV. DIR. PARKER.
The Distinguished Divine Severely
Criticised by Wall Street


SpeculatOf.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-Deacon S. V.
White has written letter on the DIR.
Parker-Beeeher eulogy scandal. lie
closes the letter as follows:
81 hear that DR.. Parker is engaged to
preach on Dec. in Plymouth pulpit.
If the fact is demonstrated before that
time that DR.. Parker received a fee out
of the receipts for that eulogy, pre-
dict that Plymouth pulpit will, on that
day, be too hot to hold him, or at least,
that if he can endure the calOric of his
environment, he will look out on con-
gregatiOn so frigid that the contrast
will suggest the respective temper
atures of Dives and Lazarus OH mem
OEable OCCASION. Il
The following dispatch from the Eng
lish clergyman. dated from Chicago,
was received yesterday afternoon:
ITO deliver the eulogy at Brooklyn |
paid for 5000 miles of travel, suspended
my usual work in London for five weeks,
paid for the supply of my pulpit during
whole time. work and expense, L re-
ceived neither more nor less than 500.
JOSEPH PARiKER.Y
The feeling in Brooklyn over the
Parker episode continues very str0ng.-
1t was so marked yesterday that when
Assistant Pastor Halliday gave out the
usual announcements in Plymouth
church he omitted to read notice that
DIR. Parker would preach next Sun
day. 1t is said that he feared the name
would be greeted by Kisses, and to avoid
such disagreeable occurrence he
thought best to ignore the notice. The
excitement over the affair was still
greater to-day, however, when a dis
patch was published dated Chicago, in
which DIR. Parker defiantly states that
he received exactly 800 for the eulogy
on Mr.. Beecher. and that he considered
that no remarkable compensation for
travelling 6,G00 miles, leaving his pulpit
and home five weeks and the work of
preparing the address. Members of the
Plymouth church commenting on this
assert that it is well known that DIR.
Parker also received $3.50 from a pub
fishers syndicate for the copyright Of
the eulogy. Deacon Whites letter say
ing that Plymouth pulpit would be too
hot for DR.. Parker unless he explained
matters, now becomes an interesting
factor in the situation. 1t is said, to
avoid scene. Dr. Parker will be asked
to excuse himself from filling the ell
gagement. 1t now appears that Maj.
Pond has been uniustly blamed i'll the
matter. He was the victim of misun-
derStanding. An offer of $500 to DIR.
Parker had been previously made pri-
vately by others, but withdrawn. When
Maj. Pond suggested the culogy later,
Dr.. Parker assumed that the $500 offer
was renewed, and he added 500, it is
said, for additional expenses, making
i'm oil Mai r n
pay the gross proceeds to the monument
fund, but only the net proceeds. He
feels hurt at Deacon Whites structures
and ridiculeS the ideal conveyed by the
deacon letter that everybody has been
animated by pure love of Mr.. Beecher
in these matters. The ma iOr says the
extraordinary love for Mr.. Beecher has
not materialiZed i'll hard cash. and is
mostly cheap talk.
Maj. Pond Tonight sent to the
Beecher monument fund committee his
check for 81. 33S.3:35, being the net re-
ceipts from the Parker eulegy after
paying for the hall. The 800 paid DIR.
Parker does not came out of the eulogy
receipts, but is paid by Mr.. Sherman
and others who originally guaranteed
DR.. Parker his expenses. Mai. Pond
retains nothing for his own services.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2S.-Dr. Joseph
Parker. the eminent English divine and
lecturer, who has just concluded his
course of lectures on The Life and
held friendly conference with all the
prominent evangelical ministers of
Chicago in the First Methodist church
to-day. The meeting was called in
honor of the distinguished guest, who
returns in a day or two TO England.
Rev. DR.. Parker has won hosts of warm
friends and admirers during his brief
sojourn in the United States. and was
most cordially invited to make a return
visit to Chicago next summer, which the
reverend orator promised to do. Upon
his return from the ministers meet
ing this morning Rev. Dr.. Parker
was waited upon by a reporter.
for the purpose of learning whether. i'll
view of the criticisms which had been
made on the circumstances attending
his recent Beecher eulogy and the re-
marks of Mr.. Shearman which appeared
in the morning papers. he proposed to
fulfill his engagement to preach in Ply
mouth church on Sunday next He re-
fused, however, to be seen. but sent his
wife to receive the reporter. Upon the
nature of the query being intimated 10
him. he requested Mrs. Parker TO say
that he absolutely declined to discuss
the matter or to say whether or not he
would appear in the Plymouth pulpit
again before his departure to England.
The doctor does not think that the
matter at ali concerns the press said
the lady, land it would be utterly use
less for me to attempt to get you direct
reply. am sorry can not give you
more satisfaction
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of London.
delivered lecture upon Gladstone
this evening at Central Music hall to an
audience of 1,500 people. The lecture
was an eloquent and impressive eulogy
of the "Grand Old Man."